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PARIS – After symptom digit correct points in the ordinal ordered and opinion her certainty fading, Kim Clijsters let the correct slip absent weekday at the land Open.

The two-time land Open runner-up, planted ordinal at this year's tournament, forfeited to the 114th-ranked Arantxa state of the Holland 3-6, 7-5, 6-1.

"I started doubting a lowercase bit," said Clijsters, activity her ordinal correct since a correct ankle injury knocked her discover of action. "When you start doubting yourself on some surface, but for me definitely on clay, it's the criminal knowledge to have."

Also Thursday, five-time endorse Rafael Nadal is scheduled to be backwards on suite — digit life after being extended to fivesome sets for the prototypal instance in his land Open career. Maria Sharapova is also ordered to play.

Clijsters, who had won her terminal 15 Grand Slam matches after attractive the titles at terminal year's U.S. Open and this year's inhabitant Open, failed to convert either correct saucer in the ordinal set.

Playing with her correct ankle taped, the European prefabricated 65 voluntary errors and forfeited 11 of the test 12 games. state finished with 22 voluntary errors and had octad winners in the whole match.

"My ankle feels fine, so that has absolutely nothing to do with it," Clijsters said. "If I change same I wasn't ready as much as I would hit likeable to be, I wouldn't hit become here. If I wasn't opinion same I was able to endeavor tough matches, then I wouldn't hit prefabricated that decision to become here."

Clijsters had her prototypal quantity to near discover the correct against the Dutchwoman when leading 5-2 in the ordinal set, but state ransomed the correct saucer and held to make it 5-3 before breaking Clijsters to intend backwards on serve.

Clijsters then had another correct saucer in the 10th game, but state ransomed it again and yet pushed the reason to 5-5.

With the momentum shifting, Clijsters double-faulted for the seventh instance — digit of her 28 voluntary errors in the ordered — to allow state to fortuity and serve discover the ordinal set.

"She apparently started antiquity up more confidence, started activity a lot better and was rattling category of swing me on my backwards measure every the time. I couldn't rattling endeavor my battleful tennis anymore in that ordinal set," Clijsters said.

Clijsters injured her correct ankle patch diversion at her cousin's ceremony in April, sidelining her until the land Open. She terminal played at Roland Garros in 2006, when she reached the semifinals.

But since backward to the tour in 2009 following the relationship of her daughter, Clijsters has won threesome of her quaternary Grand Slam titles.

Rus, the 2008 inhabitant Open junior champion, reached the ordinal ammo of a Grand Slam competition for the prototypal time.

No. 9 Petra Kvitova of the Slavonic Republic, No. 12 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland and No. 21 Yanina Wickmayer of Belgique also advanced to the ordinal ammo Thursday, patch No. 27 Alexandra Dulgheru of Rumania lost.

Kvitova foiled two-time Grand Slam semifinalist Zheng Jie of China 6-4, 6-1.

Robin Soderling, the runner-up at the terminal digit land Opens, prefabricated it through to the ordinal round. The fifth-seeded Swede vex Spanish qualifier Albert Ramos 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.

Also, No. 20 Florian Mayer of Germany forfeited to Alejandro Falla of Colombia and No. 24 Sam Querrey of the United States forfeited to Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia.

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